All credit for this goes to Reddit User TheCodyBrown, posted here, on /r/SimRacing.
As you can imagine this took tons of work to design and build so please feel free to support a young engineering student with a donation at Paypal.me/TheCodyBrown.
A good number of people asked for details about my shifter when I posted about my Humble Homemade Rig so here are the details!
Link 1
Link 2I am too cheap to afford a TH8A and I don’t care much for logitech shifters so I created my own. This uses a similar latching mechanism to other DIY shifters but I wanted to build a gated shifter that was completely self contained. The stiffness of the latching system is adjustable by tightening or changing out the spring!
This shifter uses a cheap USB encoder board (see link below) and 6 rocker switches to inform the game what gear is selected. This requires NO SOFTWARE at all! The PC simply sees it at as a game controller with a number of button inputs. The switches and board are just hot-glued in place, the switches need to be bent slightly to ensure contact with the shifter arm when in gear.
The rest of the shifter is made up of parts that you can find at a local hardware store and 3D printed components. I used PETG as it is crazy tough but any other type of filament can be used.
Link to 3D printing and Solidworks files. (Google Drive – Preferred)
